Princes Street Gardens

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  • Address
    Princes St, New town
  • Transport
    bus: all Princes St buses

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These beautiful gardens lie in a valley once occupied by the Nor' Loch (North Loch), a boggy depression that was drained in the early 19th century. They are split in the middle by The Mound - around two million cart-loads of earth dug out from foundations during the construction of the New Town and dumped here to provide a road link across the valley to the Old Town. It was completed in 1830.